September 2023 TIPS FROM THERIOT “Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air—moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh—felt as if it were being exhaled into one’s... Isabel Ryan Theriot
July 2023 TIPS FROM THERIOT When I was a kid, my family spent many weeks of the spring and summer in Grand Isle, or “The Island” as we called it. Grand Isle is a teensy Jefferson Parish town located on a... Isabel Ryan Theriot
June 2023 TIPS FROM THERIOT Ah, happy day, refuse to go! Hang in the heavens forever so! Forever in midafternoon, Ah, happy day of happy June! When I discovered this passage from the poem “A... Isabel Ryan Theriot
May 2023 TIPS FROM THERIOT Do you like fertility and copulation? Do you enjoy honoring and making romantic devotions to trees and vegetation goddesses? Well, you’re in luck! May Day is a celebration of... Isabel Ryan Theriot
April 2023 TIPS FROM THERIOT There once was a family named Theriot, for which a dirty house was their biggest foe. Hailing from St. Gabriel, LaPlace, and Baton Rouge, knowledge of cleaning flowed from them... Isabel Ryan Theriot
March 2023 TIPS FROM THERIOT Ah March, you important month, you. Even though you’re named after Mars, the god of war, I see the true fun and harmonious you. I mean, you bring so many things to the seasonal... Isabel Ryan Theriot
February 2023 TIPS FROM THERIOT Where will you be on Tuesday, February 21? If you live in or are visiting New Orleans, you’ll probably be traipsing through the streets, dressed like a feral, magical so-and-so,... Isabel Ryan Theriot
January 2023 TIPS FROM THERIOT Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the... Isabel Ryan Theriot
December 2022 TIPS FROM THERIOT 🎵I’m dreaming of a house cleaning, but I have nary a coin to spend / My pockets are empty, from buying gifts a plenty / I guess my house will be filthy until Spring / Oh... Isabel Ryan Theriot
November 2022 TIPS FROM THERIOT Turkeys, am I right? Man, November is not a fun month for this fluffy fowl, for it is in November that we humans traditionally murder and chow down on them. Try as they might,... Isabel Ryan Theriot
October 2022 TIPS FROM THERIOT Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays: dressing up in costumes (I dressed up like Freddy Krueger twice as a child, and I don’t want to toot my own butt, but they... Isabel Ryan Theriot
September 2022 TIPS FROM THERIOT The first ever newspaper published in America was printed on September 25, 1690. Guess where you’re reading this column (shut up if you’re reading this online)? Jinx! Yay,... Isabel Ryan Theriot
